164 Cells; or, Evolution. 



destiny. And the principles of your life, in your 

 short and checkered career from the cradle to the 

 grave, are best summed up in the words which the 

 Protestant Bishop of Carlisle quotes from a French 

 scientist, who exclaims with sentiment, if not with 

 taste: "Ah! is it not befitting to entertain a little 

 sane forbearance with respect to the seven capital 

 sins? Judge for yourselves. Just a little too much 

 blood, perhaps a hundredth part of a gramme ill- 

 directed upon contact with a little bit of nervous 

 fibre somewhere, and lo! on the spot a haughty 

 man, a vain woman, a proud creature!" Ah! happy 

 creature then, thou amphioxus, brainless, scaleless, 

 finless fish! Happier far without a brain, and with 

 a rudimentary heart, than hearts and brains of 

 men and women, with science and sentiments such 

 as these! 



180. I have dwelt upon this one gap between the 



mollusks and the vertebrates, as an instance of how 



„ . „ scientific men handle scientific facts. 



Other Gaps. 



Hurrying on to a conclusion, I will 

 barely mention a couple more of these chasms, un- 

 bridged in the geological records, but furnishing 

 me with a bridge good enough to approach our 

 concluding view. 



181. In the cretaceous formation of North 

 America, which belongs to the secondary or meso- 

 zoic age, there occur leaves of the angiosperms, 

 which are plants of modern type, such as the wil- 

 low, elm, magnolia and the palms. They impart a 



